A critical pedagogy of embodied education
Subtitle: learning to become an activist
By: Tracey Ollis
Series: Postcolonial studies in education
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780230340510
Subjects: Critical pedagogy; Social action; Social aspects; EDUCATION / Non-Formal Education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship; Study and teaching; Teaching; EDUCATION / General
Description: "Unlike any current publication on social purpose education, this book explores the differences and similarities between two groups of activists: lifelong activists who have been engaged in campaigns and socials movements over many years and circumstantial activists, those protestors who come to activism due to a series of life circumstances. Using empirical research conducted in Australia, Tracey Ollis outlines the pedagogy of activism and the process of learning to become an activist"--